The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations of Their Works, Volum 2Derby & Jackson, 1857 |
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... means to be excepted out of the number of those who have brought Pindar into discredit by pretending to resemble him . - GILBERT WEST : Preface to Pindar . That Pindar's odes were regular , English writers might have ascertained from ...
... means to be excepted out of the number of those who have brought Pindar into discredit by pretending to resemble him . - GILBERT WEST : Preface to Pindar . That Pindar's odes were regular , English writers might have ascertained from ...
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... means his observations are solid and natural as well as delicate , so his design is always to bring to light something use- ful and ornamental ; whence his character is the reverse to theirs , who have eminent abilities in insignificant ...
... means his observations are solid and natural as well as delicate , so his design is always to bring to light something use- ful and ornamental ; whence his character is the reverse to theirs , who have eminent abilities in insignificant ...
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... means the imagination can with great facility range the wide field of nature , contemplate an infinite variety of objects , and , by observing the similitude and disagreement of their several qualities , single out and abstract , and ...
... means the imagination can with great facility range the wide field of nature , contemplate an infinite variety of objects , and , by observing the similitude and disagreement of their several qualities , single out and abstract , and ...
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... mean that we are entertained every day with more valuable sentiments at the table - conversation of ingenious and learned men . " I am unwilling , however , to leave him in total disgrace , and will therefore quote from another preface ...
... mean that we are entertained every day with more valuable sentiments at the table - conversation of ingenious and learned men . " I am unwilling , however , to leave him in total disgrace , and will therefore quote from another preface ...
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... mean arts and dishonourable shifts . Whoever mentioned Fenton , men- tioned him with honour . 3 The life that passes in penury must necessarily pass in obscurity . It is impossible to trace Fenton from year to year , or to discover what ...
... mean arts and dishonourable shifts . Whoever mentioned Fenton , men- tioned him with honour . 3 The life that passes in penury must necessarily pass in obscurity . It is impossible to trace Fenton from year to year , or to discover what ...
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Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations ..., Volum 2 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1864 |
Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations ..., Volum 2 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1854 |
Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations ..., Volum 2 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1866 |
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